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To: CSM
By offering tarrifs as the solution, aren't we asking that the quality of life for Americans be lowered?

You mean, the quality of life as in what is offered by America's largest employer (outside of the government) WalMart?

In reality, this article proposes lowering the purchase power of Americans, therefore harming our citizens in every day life.

In reality, this article demonstrates the failures of free trade, not theory, as in your reality.

If there is such a connection between the trade deficit and employment, why is the unemployment rate not affected?

There is a connection between free trade and employment. Protectionists argue that free trade lowers the standard of living. Low unemployment demonstrates what everyone knows already, American workers are the best in the world and are willing to work three jobs to prove it.

81 posted on 04/18/2005 9:26:17 AM PDT by Nephi ("I am in favor of free trade." - Karl Marx)
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To: Nephi

"You mean, the quality of life as in what is offered by America's largest employer (outside of the government) WalMart?"

Exactly how is this a poor quality of life?

"In reality, this article demonstrates the failures of free trade, not theory, as in your reality.

Are you honestly claiming that by making products cost more, via adding a tarrif, that spending power is not reduced? If a product costs more, then we have to earn more to purchase that product, as a result quality of live is harmed, a direct harm to the citizens of the country charging the tariffs. That is not theory, regardless of your inability to understand it.

"There is a connection between free trade and employment. Protectionists argue that free trade lowers the standard of living. Low unemployment demonstrates what everyone knows already, American workers are the best in the world and are willing to work three jobs to prove it."

Unproven claims rarely are convincing.


83 posted on 04/18/2005 9:32:16 AM PDT by CSM
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